Coming to VMworld US? Get yourself a VVOL compliant all software storage array

This article details all of my and Atlantis’ activities at VMworld US. Read more to get an introduction of what we will be doing and announcing and a sneak peek at our upcoming technology roadmap that solves some of the major business issues concerning performance, capacity and availability today. It is indeed going to be a VMworld with ‘no limits’ and one of the great innovations that we will be announcing is Teleport. More on this later!

No limits with Teleport

I’ll be at in San Francisco from Saturday 23rd August until Thursday 28th August where I’ll be representing the USX team and looking after the Hands on Labs, running live demos and having expert one on ones at the booth. Come and visit to learn more about USX and how I can help you get more performance and capacity out of your VMware and storage infrastructure. I’d love to hear from you.

Where can you find me?

Atlantis is a Gold sponsor this year with Hands on Labs, a booth and multiple speaking sessions. Read on to find out what we’ll be announcing and where you can find my colleagues and me.

Booth in the Exhibitor Hall

I’ll mostly be located at booth 1529, you can find me and my colleagues next to the main VMware booth, just head straight up pass the HP, EMC, NetApp and Dell stands and come speak to me on how USX can help you claim more performance and capacity from these great enterprise storage arrays.

Speak to me about USX data services and I’ll show you some great live demos on how you can reclaim up to 5 times your storage capacity and gain 10 times more performance out of your VMware environment.

Here’s one showing USX as storage for vCloud Director in a Service Provider context and also for Horizon View.

If that’s not enough then come and speak to me about some of these great innovations:

If you’ve been waiting for a VVOL compliant all software vendor to try VVOLs with vSphere 6 beta then wait no more.

VMware VVOL Support – all of your storage past, present and future instantly become VVOL compliant with USX.

Teleport – the vMotion of the storage world which gives you the ability to move VMs, VMDKs and files between multiple data centers and the cloud in seconds to improve agility (if you’re thinking its Storage vMotion, trust me it is not).

And more….

Location in Solutions Exchange

Sessions

We have three breakout sessions this year, two of them with our customers UHL and Northim Bank where Dave Rose and Erick Stoeckle respectively will take you through how they use USX in production.

The other breakout session is focused on VVols, VASA, VSAN and USX Data Services and will be delivered by our CTO and Founder Chetan Venkakesh (@chetan_). If you have not had the pleasure to hear Chetan speak before, then please don’t miss this opportunity. The guy is insane and uses just one slide with one picture to explain everything to you. He is a great storyteller and you shouldn’t miss it – even if it’s just for the F bombs that he likes to drop.

Chetan will also do a repeat 20-minute condensed session in the Solutions Exchange for a brain dump of Atlantis USX Data Services. Don’t miss this! Chetan will take you through the great new technology in the Atlantis kitbag.

All three modules will take you approximately an hour and a half to complete.

I had an interesting time writing this lab which was a balancing exercise in working with the limited resources assigned to my Org VDC. Please provide feedback on this lab if you can, it’ll help with future versions of this HOL. Just tweet me at @hugophan. Thanks!

Note that performance will be an issue because we are using the VMworld Hands on Labs hosted on Project NEE/OneCloud. This is a vCloud Director cloud in which the ESXi servers that you will see in vCenter are actually all virtual machines. Any VMs that you run on these ESXi servers will themselves be what we call nested VMs. In some cases you could actually see 2 more or nested levels. How’s that for inception? Just be aware that the labs are for a GUI, concept and usability feel and not for performance.

If you want to see performance, come to our booth!

VMware Hands on Labs with 3 layers of nested VMs!

Hands on Labs modules

Module #

01

Module Title

Atlantis USX – Deploying together with VMware VSAN to deliver optimized local storage

Module Narrative

Using Atlantis USX, IT organizations can pool VSANs with existing shared storage, while optimizing it with Atlantis USX In-Memory storage technology to boost performance, reduce storage capacity and provide storage services such as high availability, fast cloning and unified management across all datacenter storage hardware.The student will be taken through how to build a Hybrid virtual volume that optimizes VMware VSAN allowing it to delver high performing virtual workloads from local storage.

With Atlantis USX In-Memory storage optimization, processing computationally extensive analytics becomes easier and more cost effective allowing for an increased amount of data being processed per node and reduced the time to complete these IO intensive jobs, workloads may include Hadoop, Splunk, MongoDB.During this lab the student will be taken through how to build an Atlantis USX virtual volume using local server memory.

Build an USX Performance Pool aggregating server RAM from a number of ESX hosts.

Log into the web based management interface, and connect it the vCenter hosting the ESX infrastructure

Export the memory from the three ESX hosts onto the network using Atlantis aggregation technology.

Combine the discrete RAM resource into a protected performance pool with the Pool creation wizard.